Chemical Communications 2012-11-21

Gold nanoparticles encapsulated in porous carbon.

Jinrui Guo, Kenneth S Suslick

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 48(90) , 11094-11096, (2012)

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Abstract

Gold nanoparticles encapsulated in porous carbon spheres with high surface areas (~800 m(2) g(-1)) have been synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP). The porous carbon-encapsulated gold nanoparticles exhibit excellent catalytic activity toward the reductions of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic nitroaromatics.